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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

- CSOC leadership position, reporting to the Head of CSOC, delivering reactive and proactive threat prevention, detection, response and intelligence capabilities to the NHS and broader health and care ecosystem.- Designed, developed, implemented and maintained operational oversight of NHS Digital's large scale (~2m) endpoint threat hunting function and team. - Line management responsibilities for members of the threat hunting team (FTE and contract staff).- Developed and refined process for creation and validation of endpoint hunting leads in line with target operating model.- Co-developed and refined process for information flows between SecOps, ThreatOps and DevOps teams.- Assisted in the procurement process for various security solutions including Endpoint/Network Detection and Response and Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP).- Represented NHS Digital CSOC at recruitment fairs and industry conferences.- Creation of job specifications and role descriptions for roles inside the ThreatOps function.- Performed candidate interviews and assessments for roles across the CSOC.- Generation of KPIs.- Detection engineering.

Leeds, United Kingdom

- CSOC technical lead on multiple national initiatives including large scale MSFT Defender for Endpoint (MDE) roll out and utilisation. - Deputising for Head of CSOC.- Developing new and refining existing CSOC capabilities and maturing services offered to the wider NHS.- Represented NHS Digital CSOC and larger Data Security Centre at national Health and Security conferences.- Mentoring analysts.- Assessed/interviewed candidates for roles in the SecOps function.

Leeds, United Kingdom

- Contract managed security services consultant representing British Telecom.- Embedded in the client team, developing the NHS Digital security operations capability via development and refinement of: - Data sources - Splunk security use cases - Threat intelligence curation, enrichment and dissemination - Run/playbooks - Mentoring junior analysts- Primary communication bridge between supplier and client.- Responsible for mentoring BT Security junior analysts.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Monitor and analyse Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Anomaly Detection Systems (ADS), Firewall event logs, and Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) toolset event logs to identify security attacks and threats for remediation/suppression. Recognise potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises through reviews and analysis of relevant event detail and summary information.

Wakefield, United Kingdom

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Msc Advanced Security & Digital Forensics, Cyber/Computer Forensics And Counterterrorism

Computer Forensics & Security, Cyber/Computer Forensics And Counterterrorism, First

Activities and Societies: Student Representative - 2 years

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